The Civil War finally came to an end after four bitter years of conflict… the North VS. the South… the United States of America against the Confederate States of America; the deadliest war in American history. In four years of fighting, approximately 620,000 soldiers died – 360,000 for the Union and 260,000 for the Confederacy. Those numbers don’t even include the wounded.
It seems as if it were yesterday when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, but now we are even beyond the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Harper’s Ferry and the Election of 1860… all in the past.What’s so fresh in our minds though is the deadly shooting of our beloved President Abraham Lincoln… the first American president to be assassinated.Lincoln recently said himself at his Second Inaugural Address,“I am a tired man. Sometimes I think I am the tiredest man on earth.”Did a certain guest attending his speech take this as invitation to murder the President? We can’t be sure, but what we do know is that SOMEONE took matters into their own hands on April 14th, 1865 at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. Just like that SOMEONEcrept into the balcony where the president sat and fired shots into the back of Lincoln’s head. As quick as the shots were fired, the person leapt over the balcony landed on the stage and was gone… the Murderer managed to escape the theatre...
The nation is stunned; there is intense grief… people are weeping in the streets. Walt Whitman wrote a poem that said it all:
This Dust Was Once the Man This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, Was saved the Union of these States.
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The Civil War finally came to an end after four bitter years of conflict… the North VS. the South… the United States of America against the Confederate States of America; the deadliest war in American history. In four years of fighting, approximately 620,000 soldiers died – 360,000 for the Union and 260,000 for the Confederacy. Those numbers don’t even include the wounded.
It seems as if it were yesterday when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, but now we are even beyond the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Harper’s Ferry and the Election of 1860… all in the past. What’s so fresh in our minds though is the deadly shooting of our beloved President Abraham Lincoln… the first American president to be assassinated. Lincoln recently said himself at his Second Inaugural Address, “I am a tired man. Sometimes I think I am the tiredest man on earth.” Did a certain guest attending his speech take this as invitation to murder the President? We can’t be sure, but what we do know is that SOMEONE took matters into their own hands on April 14th, 1865 at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. Just like that SOMEONE crept into the balcony where the president sat and fired shots into the back of Lincoln’s head. As quick as the shots were fired, the person leapt over the balcony landed on the stage and was gone… the Murderer managed to escape the theatre...
The nation is stunned; there is intense grief… people are weeping in the streets. Walt Whitman wrote a poem that said it all:
This Dust Was Once the ManThis dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States.
Now click on "Task" (top of the screen - right side - in the Navigation Bar)